Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forty-seven years after the flood which cost 2,200 lives and demolished the city, a similar flood taking an even greater toll of property ravaged the city of (1 Pittsburgh, Pa., 2 Hartford, Conn., 3 Johnstown, Pa., 4 Harper's Ferry, Md., 5 Cincinnati, Ohio...
...those who may be associated with him in lending the $1,000,000 to the operating company," said he, "but 99 years is a long time, and our memories need not run very far back to illustrate my point." Mr. Prince, he observed, would be getting a "rather heavy toll," and his first lien on M. & St. L. income would make RFC's first mortgage, in effect, a second mortgage. Lastly, the whole idea was "a delusion in that it holds out false hopes to everyone interested in the road...
Meanwhile Mr. Toll, whose hobby had now become his job, went on to other tasks. In 1933 he formed the Council of State Governments, with the idea that each State should at least contribute "a stenographer's salary" ($1,000 to $5,000 a year depending on the size of the State) to maintain an organization for interstate cooperation. Only nine states so far are paying members of it, but last week at the Shoreland Hotel near the University of Chicago, 86 representatives of 33 states assembled to put a new piece of the Council's governmental machinery...
...Constitution provides that states may make compacts or agreements with one another provided Congress ratifies them. Best example is the compact setting up the Port of New York Authority which links New York and New Jersey together with four bridges and the Holland Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making...
...Said Mr. Toll to the delegates who assembled in Chicago: "There is only one way in which we can reduce this pressure for centralization [of government], and that is by devising effective machinery through which the state governments can engage in a constructive and aggressive campaign of co-operation for better, modern integral government...